In accordance with the requirements of Provisions on Environmental Administration of New Chemical Substances (MEP Decree No. 7), certificate holders of simplified notification and hazardous new chemical substances must report the actual volume of manufacture or import for the previous year before February 1 of each calendar year. Accordingly, the China Solid Waste and Chemicals Management Center (SCC) announced that certificate holders of simplified notification and hazardous new chemical substances need to report their manufacturing and import status from 2018. These reports had to be submitted online beginning January 1, 2019 – ending February 1, 2019.

The Standards, Equity, Health and Safety Commission issued a draft regulation proposing to amend Annex I of the Regulation respecting occupational health and safety, providing for concentrations of contaminants in the air under which a worker may be exposed without harming his health. Accordingly, the Regulation respecting occupational health and safety (chapter S-2.1, r 13) is amended at Annex I.